transfer station

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Recent Examples of transfer station The new federal order requires the sharing of raw milk samples, upon request, from dairy farms, bulk milk shippers, milk transfer stations or dairy processing facilities that send or hold milk for pasteurization. Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024 The new order requires the sharing of raw milk samples, upon request, from dairy farms, bulk milk shippers, milk transfer stations or dairy processing facilities that send or hold milk for pasteurization. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2024 The courts will take up a section of the park that had been home to a trash transfer station and seaweed composting site. Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024 Officials called local tow company Nauset Recovery Inc, to haul the 12.5-foot and 1,240-pound apex predator in the back of a truck through the beachside town of Orleans to the local transfer station for a necropsy. Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for transfer station
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Noun
  • Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
    By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The series follows a team of collectors in search of antique items found in junkyards, old barns and more.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • At Melancholy, one of Salt Lake City's newest wine bars, patrons can enjoy their sips surrounded by antiques and junkyard discoveries that tell their own stories.
    Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The vacuum is also equipped with a high-efficiency filter and a handy dustbin that can be emptied with the push of a button.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Its brush roll didn’t get tangled over time, despite its dustbin bursting with fur after each run.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In 2022, lawmakers implemented Senate Bill 1383, which initially mandated the diversion of 50% of all food and organic waste away from landfills, but increased to 75% on Jan. 1, 2025.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • Over the years, multiple locations have been suspected as the source of the stench, particularly the landfill and the city’s wastewater treatment plant along James P. Snell Drive off U.S. 441.
    James Wilkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025

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